Prof. Dr. Bernhard Michalke is the deputy director of the Research Unit Analytical BioGeoChemistry of Helmholtz Center, Munich (HMGU) and the leader of the research group of Elements and Element Speciation and Central Analytics at HMGU. He holds a professorship and habilitation (Analytical Chemistry) at the Technical University, Graz, Austria. He completed his PhD (Dr.rer.nat) at the Technical University of Munich, Germany. His work experience includes ICP-MS, HPLC, CE-ICP-MS coupling techniques, and his research interests include speciation projects related to environmental health and neurodegeneration, and manganese and iron metabolism in the CNS. He has been on many committees, and held many memberships, including: 2004–2016 President of the German Trace Element Society GMS 2016–today Head of the advisory board of GMS 2007–2016 President of the Federation of European Societies on Trace Elements and Minerals 2007–today Fellow (FRSC) of the Royal Society of Chemistry Member of the following Expert Groups: 2005–today -For Evaluated Analytics in biological Material of DFG 2009–today -For Human Biomonitoring of the Umweltbundesamt and VCI, -For biologic tolerance levels of DFG -Senate Commission for MAK values of DFG